And now it looks like Mazda are about to bite the bullet on an electric car with a Wankel range extending engine powered by hydrogen which, according to Mazda boss Takashi Yamanouchi, will be available to lease from 2013.

Yamanouchi told Japan’s Nikkei that the Wankel engine is perfect as a range extender as it is easy to make it compact and safe and the Wankel engine works very well at constant revs, which is ideal as a battery charger.

Mazda seem to feel differently, and the Mazda EV with a range extender Wankel engine is a logical step on from the Mazda Premacy Hydrogen RE Hybrid (pictured above), which was a hydrogen powered hybrid Mazda produced a couple of years ago.

Looks very promising.

Source: The Nikkei

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Come on Takashi Yamanouchi bring it on, surley audi and the other car manurfactures dont deserve the credit when due, as they have not produced a production car for the masses. So heres your chance and produce this car and watch the other car manurfactures be green with envy, mazda will be very unique with the range extender hydrogen rotary engine, brilliant thinking…..Im sure mazda will do very well……